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Descripción De Una Nueva Especie Del Genero Tetraleurodes Cockerell (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Y Clave Para Las Especies De México, Oscar Ángel Sánchez-Flores, Vicente Emilio Carapia-Ruiz, Oswaldo García-Martínez, José Angel Villarreal-Quintanilla, Antonio Castillo-Gutiérrez

Insecta Mundi

Se describe con medidas, dibujos e imágenes obtenidas con microscopio compuesto, una nueva especie de mosca blanca, Tetraleurodes dorsibandas Sánchez y Carapia sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) que se encontró alimentándose de Casimiroa edulis (Rutaceae) y Ehretia tinifolia (Boraginaceae) en Morelos y Oaxaca (México), respectivamente. La especie se diferencia de Tetraleurodes perileuca (Cockerell) por tener el raquis en forma de bandas, presentar estructuras en forma de mosaico irregular en la parte media de los segmentos abdominales y la presencia de setas cefálicas. Se proporciona una clave de las especies de México y se enlistan las especies del nuevo mundo.

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New Nih-Funded Studies Will Examine Risk Factors For Age-Related Diseases, Staff

Browse All News

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Volume Cxxxv, Number 6, October 27, 2017, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

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Cyclic Peptide Conjugate Of Curcumin And Doxorubicin As An Anticancer Agent, Shaban Darwish, Saghar Mozaffari, Keykavous Parang, Rakesh Tiwari

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

The hydrophobicity of curcumin creates hurdle towards its use in the anticancer therapy. Herein, we synthesized a curcumin-doxorubicin conjugated cyclic peptide scaffold to improve the solubility of curcumin and create a conjugate containing two anticancer agents. A solid-phase Fmoc/tBu solid phase methodology was used to synthesize a cell-penetrating nuclear targeting peptide with free thiol and amine groups, which was coupled with the activated doxorubicin (Dox) and curcumin, affording Dox-peptide-curcumin conjugate (DPCC) (10). The antiproliferative activity of the conjugate was evaluated in human leukemia carcinoma cell (CCRF-CEM), human ovarian carcinoma cell (SKOV-3), and normal kidney cell line (LLCPK). Cyclic peptide-doxorubicin conjugate …

The Saharan Air Layer As An Early Rainfall Season Suppressant In The Eastern Caribbean: The 2015 Puerto Rico Drought, Thomas L. Mote, Craig A. Ramseyer, Paul W. Miller

Faculty Publications

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Mitsubishi Motors Usa Foundation Funds $10,000 Internship Grant, University Communications

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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Exploring Gender In First-Year Composition, Ross Alan Bradley

Theses and Dissertations

Recently scholars in Creative Writing have begun researching gender and how gender relates to student success composition classes. This thesis uses critical discourse analysis and linguistic markers associated with different genders to examine student interaction with emphasis on gender domination and power inequalities between students of different genders. Data was collected from both face-to-face and online first-year composition classes. The first chapter gives a brief overview of relevant literature and outlines the other chapters, the second chapter describes literature that was researched for the study, and the third chapter lays critical discourse analysis, which was used to analyze the data. …

October 27, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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The Echo: October 27, 2017, Taylor University

2017-2018 (Volume 105)

Students reading with the cow – 5.5 for 55 – Fun fall celebration – Let’s talk about it – Enactus goes west – Bree’s Beat International News – Finding God at the very end of the highway – Marketing makes scents: The essentials – Fall Fashion Week – A musical voyage – Haines Brothers Band performs – Identity lies between the shadow and the light – What if we were honest? – Our take on #TakeAKnee – Football obliterates Lindenwood – Weekly Preview – Trojans smash Cougars in three sets – Women’s cross country claims Great Lakes Invite title – …

Integrating A Diverse Group Of Students Into The Affinity Research Group Model, Abigail Matos-Pagan

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This presentation will describe the strategies and outcomes of integrating a diverse group of students into research activities using a model develop by engineering professors. The Affinity Research Group Model intends to develop cooperative learning and teamwork skills to maintain effective research groups.

Swainson's Thrushes Do Not Show Strong Wing Selectivity Prior To Crossing The Gulf Of Mexico, Rachel T. Bolus, Robert H. Diehl, Frank R. Moore, Jill L. Deppe, Michael P. Ward, Jaclyn Smolinsky, Theodore J. Zenzal Jr.

Faculty Publications

During long-distance fall migrations, nocturnally migrating Swainson’s Thrushes often stop on the northern Gulf of Mexico coast before flying across the Gulf. To minimize energetic costs, trans-Gulf migrants should stop over when they encounter crosswinds or headwinds, and depart with supportive tailwinds. However, time constrained migrants should be less selective, balancing costs of headwinds with benefits of continuing their migrations. To test the hypotheses that birds select supportive winds and that selectivity is mediated by seasonal time constraints, we examined whether local winds affected Swainson’s Thrushes’ arrival and departure at Ft. Morgan, Alabama, USA at annual, seasonal, and nightly time …

Introducing Virtual Representation, Thomas Simmons

Faculty Publications

The general rule that a person cannot be bound by an agreement or decree unless she received notice encounters practical difficulties where a person is missing, incompetent, a minor, unascertained, or even unborn. All beneficiaries are necessary parties in a trust proceeding. But short of appointing a guardian ad litem to represent persons who are difficult to notice, uncertainty and inefficiencies would be encountered were it not for the doctrine of virtual representation. Under the doctrine of virtual representation, persons - even if not yet in existence - can be held to be parties to a proceeding or an agreement …

New Synthetic Reactions Towards Global Chlorination And Enamides Functionalization, Mirza Ardella Saputra

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation focuses on two main projects, global chlorination and enamide functionalization, which both encompass in cationic intermediates. Inspired by the desires to find a new chlorination method, global chlorination project is emphasized in chapter one and chapter two, in which chapter one details various known chlorine-containing natural products, including alkyl chlorides and vinyl chlorides. This chapter also describes the previously known protocols to synthesize alkyl chlorides in the attempts of chlorosulfolipids total syntheses, as well as several known reactions to synthesize vinyl chlorides that are both important functional groups in organic synthesis. Chapter two depicts our novel synthetic reaction …

Reproductive Strategies Matter For Rare Plant Conservation: Pollination, Phenology, And Mating In An Endemic Plant Of The Sky Islands Of Arizona, Erigeron Lemmonii A. Gray (Lemmon's Fleabane) (Asteraceae), Pamela Bailey, Peter Kevan

Western North American Naturalist

Erigeron lemmonii A. Gray is extremely rare, but not endangered. There are fewer than 1000 individuals, but they compose an apparently stable, heterozygotic, diploid (2n = 18) population. The plants are perennial and endemic to one small location (about 0.5 km2) in Scheelite Canyon, Huachuca Mountains (Cochise County), Fort Huachuca Army Base, part of the Sky Island region, Arizona. Erigeron lemmonii grows from crevices in cliffs, ledges, and rock faces where it can form mats by spreading vegetatively from the roots as they proliferate, especially in microsites where soil accumulates. Our goals were to (1) investigate floral anatomy for reproductive …

Front Matter, Vol. 77 No. 3

Western North American Naturalist

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Cerebrospinal Fluid And Blood Biomarkers For Neurodegenerative Dementias: An Update Of The Consensus Of The Task Force On Biological Markers In Psychiatry Of The World Federation Of Societies Of Biological Psychiatry, Piotr Lewczuk, Anne M. Fagan, Brian A. Gordon, Et Al

Open Access Publications

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Elderly Women’S Experience Of The Role Of Hydrotherapy In Health: Content Analysis, Parand Pourghane

The Qualitative Report

Living to an old age is considered by many elderly women to bring about a decreased quality of life. Hydrotherapy allows individuals to engage in certain physical activities that cannot be done outside the water. The purpose of this study was to explore elderly women’s experience of the role of hydrotherapy in their health and was conducted in selected pools of Guilan province in Iran in 2015-2016. Twenty-three elderly women were selected using a purposeful sampling strategy. The data was gathered through semi-structured interviews; Researchers used a qualitative design, based on a content analysis approach. Analysis results were identified as …

End Matter, Vol. 77 No. 3

Western North American Naturalist

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Spatial-Temporal Dynamics Of Neotropical Velvet Ant (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) Communities Along A Forest-Savanna Gradient, Júlio Miguel Alvarenga, Cecília Rodrigues Vieira, Leandro Braga Godinho, Pedro Henrique Campelo, James P. Pitts, Guarino Rinaldi Colli

Biology Faculty Publications

Understanding how and why biological communities are organized over space and time is a major challenge and can aid biodiversity conservation in times of global changes. Herein, spatial-temporal variation in the structure of velvet ant communities was examined along a forest-savanna gradient in the Brazilian Cerrado to assess the roles of environmental filters and interspecific interactions upon community assembly. Velvet ants were sampled using 25 arrays of Y-shaped pitfall traps with drift fences for one year along an environmental gradient from cerrado sensu stricto (open canopy, warmer, drier) to cerradão (closed canopy, cooler, moister). Dataloggers installed on each trap recorded …

Predicting Student Success: A Logistic Regression Analysis Of Data From Multiple Siu-C Courses, Patrick Soule

Research Papers

The objective of this report is to improve prediction techniques regarding the future performance of students in select university courses through the utilization of multiple logistic regressions. This is achieved with the aid of statistical computing software which applies forward step-wise variable selection methods that identify influential variables sufficient to accurately predict student success. Once a logit model is constructed with the required parameters and predictors, the inverse logit function outputs a probability of student success. In all cases, logistic prediction models matched or exceeded the performance of current prediction methods while using an equal or lesser number of explanatory …

Hyperoxia Causes Mir-34a-Mediated Injury Via Angiopoietin-1 In Neonatal Lungs., Mansoor Syed, Pragnya Das, Aishwarya Pawar, Zubair H. Aghai, Anu Kaskinen, Zhen W. Zhuang, Namasivayam Ambalavanan, Gloria Pryhuber, Sture Andersson, Vineet Bhandari

Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers

Hyperoxia-induced acute lung injury (HALI) is a key contributor to the pathogenesis of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in neonates, for which no specific preventive or therapeutic agent is available. Here we show that lung micro-RNA (miR)-34a levels are significantly increased in lungs of neonatal mice exposed to hyperoxia. Deletion or inhibition of miR-34a improves the pulmonary phenotype and BPD-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in BPD mouse models, which, conversely, is worsened by miR-34a overexpression. Administration of angiopoietin-1, which is one of the downstream targets of miR34a, is able to ameliorate the BPD pulmonary and PAH phenotypes. Using three independent cohorts of …

Chimes: October 27, 2017, Calvin College

Chimes

Calvin faculty and students join #MeToo movement by Kathryn Mae Post

Constitution series debates political polarization by Isabella Ebbert

Mokaya hosts chocolate dinner by Morgan Anderson

Amazon's show 'Lore' offers creepy scares in time for Halloween by Brandon Schreur

Students present research at poster fair by David Fitch

Astronomy club holds first stargazing meeting by Molly Bruns

Calvin's changing identity by Josh Polanski

Berglund gives talk about hockey research by Hannah Butler

The Laws Of Genghis Khan, Beverly May Carl

Law and Business Review of the Americas

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Post Baby Boy V. United States Developments In The Inter-American System Of Human Rights: Inconsistent Application Of The American Convention's Protection Of The Right To Life From Conception, Jesus M. De Ligia

Law and Business Review of the Americas

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Canada Update-Highlights Of Major Legal News And Significant Court Cases From August 2009 Through December 2009, Andrew C. Brown

Law and Business Review of the Americas

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Guatemala Passes Domestic Legislation To Implement Hague Adoption Convention; But Does It Help The Children, Melissa Long

Law and Business Review of the Americas

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Bioprospection Versus Biopiracy And The United States Versus Brazil: Attempts At Creating An Intellectual Property System Applicable Worldwide When Differing Views Are Worlds Apart - And Irreconcilable, Megan Dunagan

Law and Business Review of the Americas

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Patent Protection And Access To Medicine: The Colombian And Peruvian Trade Promotion Agreements, Lorna Dwyer

Law and Business Review of the Americas

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Controlling Foreign Ownership Of U.S. Strategic Assets: The Challenge Of Maintaining National Security In A Globalized And Oil Dependent World, Joseph Mamounas

Law and Business Review of the Americas

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Language, Poetry, And Law: Order Patents, Bernhard Grossfeld, Josef Hoeltzenbein

Law and Business Review of the Americas

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